The documentation on connection url strings [a] indicates that connections to Google Cloud SQL should use
mysql+mysqldb://root@ /<dbname>?unix_socket=/cloudsql/<projectid>:<instancename> There are several problems: 1. The given string seems to implicitly assume use of the local proxy provided by Google. This is fine, but it would be better to state that explicitly. 2. The string assumes the user has configured the proxy to put its sockets at /cloudsql. This should be stated explicitly or the string should parametrize that path. 3. The parametrization <projectid>:<instancename> is misleading, or possibly incorrect. It might be clearer to write mysql+mysqldb://root@/<dbname>?unix_socket=/cloudsql/<instance connection name> In the Cloud SQL dashboard, the "instance connection name" is something like google.com:<projectid>:<instancename> so the present documentation would likely lead to the user omitting the necessary "google.com:" at the beginning (at least, it did for me). I'd like to fix this up, but I haven't found any documentation on how to build the documentation either on github or on the sqlalchemy website. Any clues? [a] http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/dialects/mysql.html#module-sqlalchemy.dialects.mysql.gaerdbms -- Daniel Sank -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
